For the past 30 years and with broad bipartisan support in Congress, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has funded competitive Ready to Learn (RTL) grants, authorized under the Elementary and ...

On May 2, 2025, at the age of 30, the grant that funded much of PBS KIDS’ content—the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (now defunct, too) and Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) Ready to ...

WTCI PBS has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS to extend the reach and impact of PBS KIDS early learning resources to local communities. Officials said ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which helps fund PBS, will no longer receive federal money. On July 18, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that cancels more than $1 ...

In early May 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order that called for an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS—the country’s primary public broadcasters. This represents a cut of $1.1 ...

WASHINGTON—Following a decision by U.S. Department of Education to terminate its 2020-2025 Ready To Learn to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB has informed recipients of the grant money, ...

PBS Kids shows have always leaned into the joy of literacy, whether children experienced it through alphabet lessons on Sesame Street or story time on Reading Rainbow. For the past decade or so, ...

Emmy Awards may not be enough to keep "Reading Rainbow" around. The children's program, co-produced by NET Television, is facing possible extinction if Congress does not restore $102.4 million cut ...